title: Red flags and religious coping: identifying some religious warning signs among people in crisis.
abstract: This study attempts to identify some of the signs of ineffective religious involvement in coping. Drawing from a process/integration model of efficacious coping, three broad types of religious warning signs were defined and 11 subscales were developed. These subscales were administered to a group of Roman Catholic church members and two groups of college undergraduates who had experienced different types of negative life events in the past two years. Statistical analyses were conducted to determine the relationship between these subscales and measures of general mental health and event specific outcome. The theoretical and practical implications of these results are considered.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, OH 43403, USA.
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Pargament
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Zinnbauer
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Butter
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zerowin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stanik
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002410:Catholicism; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics; D012067:Religion; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires